Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-07-30
Personal.
Whitelaw Reid is in Alaska.

Mrs Logan is still confined to her bed.
Mark Twain Is sojourning in New York
City.
Elk Mayor Carter Harrison has given $500
to the Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago.
John Reuter-, of Chicago, recently cleared
$4,000 in two days in deal in lemons.
Judge Hilton keeps twenty-six horses at
Saratoga, and yet he walks great deal in fiue
weather.
Miss Minnie E. Folsom, a near relative OF
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, has become precep-
trtss of the Brooking Agricultural College in
Dakota.
King Humbert of Italy is an exceedingly
small eater on all OCCASIONS, and, as to drink
his guests may have it in plenty, but his fav
critic tipple is water.
Carter II. Harrison, ex mayor of Chicago
has given $500 to St. Luke's Hospital of that
city to endow a bed in memory of his lat,
wife. Margaret Stearns Harrison.
Old Gen. Frank Wolford, of Kentucky, is
speaking vigorously in the present state cam
paign, and announces his intention of running
for Congress next year.
General S. w. Carpenter, of the United
States Army, is among the prominent guests
at Saratoga. General Carpenter fred the
last shot at the memorable seige of For
Sumpter.
Professor Goodwin Smith has resigned his
editorial position on the Toronto Week and
has severed his connection entirely with that
journal. Hereafter he will devote himself
to magazine work.
Adjutant General Drum looks very pale.
For the first time in years he is without a
forid complexion He is slowly recover
ing from his recent severe illness and is agl ain
at his desk.
Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria, during
three hunting days at Berezencze recently,
shot with his own gun forty-seven roebucks,
feat unprecedented in the annals of Europ-
can sport.
Robert Louis Stevenson will reach this
country about the lst of September. He will
go to California and spend year or more in
the Southern portion of that State for the
benefit of his health.
James Tudor Tallcott, who died in Con-
necticut last week, used to drive the stage
from Hartford to Boston, distance of ninety
six miles, and seldom took more than ten
hours to make the journey.
DR.. Morrell Mackenzie, the eminent Eng
fish surgeon, who has been operating on the
Crown Prince of Germany's throat, is a
nephew of Crompton, the comedian, who
used to delight London playgoers half a
century and more ago.
May Sharpsteen is little girl of seven who
is heiress to 81 100000. She inherits the
money from her late father who was a mem
Der of the wealthy firm of Arnold, Constable
& Co. of New York city. Miss Sharpsteen
narrowly escaped death few days ago at
Sea Grit.
At the recent meeting of the alumni of
Oberlin College there was read letter from
President Fairchild, saying that it had long
been his intention to resign the presidency
upon his reaching the age of 10, which would
be during the present year.
Rear Admiral Franklin, United States
Navy, who is to retire on August "a, entered
the navy in lS4l and took part in the demon
stration against Monterey during the Mexican
war. He was on board the Roanoke when
the Merrimac destroyed the Cumberland and
Congress.
Five years ago the Italian crown prince,
Victor Emmanuel, then under Ii years of
age, saw q beautiful coral necklace in jew
eler's window in Venice. Finding that he
did not have enough money to buy it, he
made bargain with the Jeweler to pay for
it in installments 1t was two years before
he succeeded in paying for the necklace,
which he then presented to his mother, Queen
Marguerite.
! James Phelan. of Memphis, the youngest
member Of the Fiftieth Congress, is a highly
| educated man. After graduating from the
Kentucky Military Institute he went to the
University of Leipsic, Germany. There he
devoted himself especially to the study OF
Latin and received the degree of doctor OF
philosophy. He returned to Memphis and
began the practice of law in 1881. He was
born December 5, 1856.
The literary men show up well in the addi-
tons to the Fiftieth Congress. Henry Cabot
Lodge says: "My business is literature
Senator Daniel alludes to the fact that he is
author of "Dsniei on Negotiable Instru-
ments." There are not many clergymen IN
the next Congress, Stewart OF Georgia, and
Mckinney, of New Hampshire, are ministers.
Mckinney served through the war, and went
through college after he was 90 years old in
order TO enter the ministry.